Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

GrokTALK! Dave DeVoy for Belknap County Commissioner

Dave DeVoy joins us to provide some insight into something very few folks think much about in New Hampshire –  county politics.  Dave is running for County commissioner in Belknap county and shares his priorities if elected, and explains some of what goes on at this level of government. You can listen to the entire … Read more

Keep the Obama Democrats out of the New Hampshire State House.

As Merrimack, New Hampshire residents go to the polls this November they should understand something about the Democrat Candidates for the NH House.  Half of them were active members or leaders of OFA, Obama for America, in the last presidential election.   They didn’t just vote for Mr. Obama, they went out and sold his … Read more

GrokTALK! Dave DeVoy for Belknap County Commissioner

Dave DeVoy joins us to provide some insight into something very few folks think much about in New Hampshire –  county politics.  Dave is running for County commissioner in Belknap county and shares his priorities if elected, and explains some of what goes on at this level of government.

Ask Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan – Do NH Businesses Create Jobs?

ShaheenThe Shaheen’s are HUGE Clinton family values fans.  They were all-in for Hillary in 2008 when Clinton Campaign co-chair Bill “We vote like a village”  Shaheen took a hit for the party by making generalizations about Barack Obama and his relationship with illegal drugs.  (Racist of him, right?)

And now Hillary (Mrs. Bill “Hide he Bimbo Eruptions”) Clinton is out walking the per-campaign ropes, working the salted earth Obama has left in his wake, for signs of a presidential life. Given past and current associations, and likely future full-throated support, it seems only proper (and necessary) for New Hampshire business owners to ask Jeanne Shaheen if she agrees with Mrs Clinton…

“Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” — Hillary Clinton.

Business owners and corporations in New Hampshire, do you create jobs?

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“Independent Voice” Shaheen Drew Obama Support Red Line…at 99%

We’ve all been reminding voters that NH Senator  Jeanne Shaheen campaigned as a non-partisan choice for New Hampshire in 2008.  The observant among us saw that for the nonsense that it was, but she got elected anyway. Now, six years later, the not-so-partisan-Jeanne-Shaheen has a problem.  She drew her own red line.  The line at … Read more

Guest Post: This election is clearly about Barack Obama

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The Election IS ABOUT this guy!

Guest Post By – Peter Lemiska

To the Editor:

There is a growing sense in the country that America is in decline. It is not a slow, prolonged deterioration stemming from some inherent defect, but rather a sudden precipitous fall, pointing to a failure in leadership. In fact, a solid majority of Americans now question this President’s leadership.

Perhaps early on, we might not have known about Obama’s character flaws – his indecisiveness, his duplicity, his petulance and boundless arrogance. We could not have known about the many scandals that were to come. But even before his first election, we should have known that we knew nothing about the man’s character.

Those character deficits, along with Obama’s determination to put his agenda before our national security, explain the scandals.

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NH Democrat Peggy Gilmour Doesn’t Trust You

New Hampshire Democrat Peggy Gilmour and her fellow travelers have invested a lot in mailers depicting her opponent Kevin Avard as an enemy of children and education. This debate can be boiled down to this: Kevin trusts parents, Gilmour believes in bureaucrats.  Kevin prefers local control; Gilmour prefers state or national control.   Kevin Trusts you … Read more

GrokTALK! – The Politics of Access

Plenty of topics in segment one, as always, but you can’t run away from the theme; the folks who stand on principle are the bad guys while everyone else capitulates and tries to cover it up by claiming it’s bipartisan.  Should we pronounce it like Courtesans? Then there’s Jebola, this weeks Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, angry … Read more

GrokTALK! – The Politics of Access

Plenty of topics in segment one, as always, but you can’t run away from the theme; the folks who stand on principle are the bad guys while everyone else capitulates and tries to cover it up by claiming it’s bipartisan.  Should we pronounce it like Courtesans? Note so the “Bipartesans”…if you are always the one … Read more

GrokSHOT! – A ‘Use’ For Democrats

There are typically a dozen or more great sound-bites in every show, and rarely enough time to do them all justice. But this was the best remark from last weeks show and we didn’t want you to miss it.  NH House candidate Robert Forsythe joined us, and at one point in one of our many … Read more

GrokTALK! October 25th, 2014

This week, we touch on tons of topics including the politics of access, caving on principles,  some county politics, and  how government regulation and taxation affects small businesses, and how New Hampshire in particular disadvantages its small business owners.   Joining us are Jane Cormier, and candidates David DeVoy, Christine Ivinjack, and Guy Comtois. (If … Read more

GrokTALK! October 25th, 2014

This week, we touch on tons of topis including the politics of access, caving on principles,  some county politics, and  how government regulation and taxation affects small businesses, and how New Hampshire in particular disadvantages its small business owners.   Joining us are Jane Cormier, and candidates David DeVoy, Christine Ivinjack, and Guy Comtois.

This Week on GrokTALK! Saturday October 25th, 2014

This week we are joined by candidates David DeVoy, Christine Ivinjack, and Guy Comtois. There’s this weeks Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.  Elections right around the corner.   We’ve always got plenty of commentary on the news of the day–with a conservative New Hampshire perspective. And we might even have some special guests stopping by. Check it out, … Read more

GrokTALK! Live Stream for Oct 25th, 2014

This week we are joined by candidates David DeVoy, Christine Ivinjack, and Guy Comtois. There’s also this weeks Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Elections right around the corner. And we’ve always got plenty of commentary on the news of the day–with a conservative New Hampshire perspective.  And…we might even have some special guests stopping by. If you … Read more

Walt Havenstein Flip Flops on NH Medicaid Expansion Veto

HAVENSTEIN FLIPS ON MEDICAD EXPANSION

Update [ by Skip] : Originally posted 8/19/14.  I won’t accept it from Dems so I CERTAINLY am not going to accept from a Republican, so I have bumped this post as well.  Steve rightly comments on the flip-flop

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Walt Havenstein is confused.

On WMUR’s Close Up this past weekend, with regard to Medicaid Expansion, NH gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein said…

“We have to fix that. …I don’t want to kick it down the road…come January 2017, under our current law, that program is going to sunset, that means a lot of people who started off in that program are going to not have that benefit. We can’t have that.”

But just a month ago, at the Belknap County Republican Committee Meeting, Mr. Havenstein was asked about this and Walt (can I call you Walt?) told a room full of Republicans that he would Veto Medicaid Expansion.

Video?  As a matter of fact we do have video of that…

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Inoculations Must Begin Now To Prevent the Spread of Jebola

I do not agree that Mittens can stop the spread of Jebola, but between the two I’d prefer a third option. I’m also giddy with myself for coming up with Jebola, if you couldn’t tell… Jebola? RT .@allahpundit: If we don’t make this Romney 2016 thing happen soon, people, we’re going to end up with … Read more

An Intelligent Conversation About Energy

Former State Senate Candidate Steve Kenda continues the discussion of energy along with Susan Olsen (our on staff energy expert), as we delve into capacity, delivery, plant shutdowns, and what New England needs realistically to meet the demands of the Northeast market.  Then there’s the circular cabal within the PUC, we talk China’s pollution, RGGI, … Read more

Election? What Election?

MRC c/o Hot Air “Amazingly, since September 1 ABC’s newly-renamed World News Tonight has yet to feature a single mention of this year’s campaign, let alone a full story, the MRC report revealed. “In contrast, eight years ago ABC’s World News aired 36 stories that discussed that year’s midterm campaign, including a weekly Thursday night … Read more

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